Seriously, this book knocked my damn socks off. This is the best book I've read about teenage love and angst. Period. Author Kevin Canty has accomplished something quite amazing in his first novel, he managed to tap into those ignominious and shameful feelings we had when we first fell in love. C...
Published: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, August 1995“There is no other life… the person that you are is the person you’re going to be. Though it was tempting to pretend.”tKevin Canty’s A Stranger in this World is full of stories about people in many different walks of life. Age, gender, d...
LET’S SAY YOU run out of money in a city that doesn’t know you, and the only job they find for you is killing dogs on the night shift. Your car dies. Your apartment is not quite far enough from the shelter. That distant sound of barking dogs is amplified by your memory, by dreams, so that it fill...
Slim, white, pretty shoulders, the curve down to her hip, it could have been a girl’s body. The rot and death inside. Heard his telephone ringing in the kitchen. It was strange how much of her was still good, how much remained of the girl. She went from waking to sleep instantly, without worry or...